Sentences with phrase «grail at»

Paul Behnke photo blogs images from the exhibition Max Gimblett: The Holy Grail at Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, on view through April 7, 2012.

Hi Ankita, the products are my holy grail at the moment.

I received a travel size of this and let me just say... it's my holy grail at - home exfoliator!

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Fresh off a «Best Mobile App» win at last month's Consumer Electronics Show, PasswordBox offers something of an Internet holy grail — the ability to sign in to multiple accounts in one spot.

Women are already the Holy Grail for marketers: they make 85 % of all brand purchases, three - quarters of women identify as the primary shopper in their household and almost one in four shop at least once a day.

But with great minds on board and over $ 100 million in backing, Grail might present the best chance at getting closer to a cure.

And to create an app that solves the problem of running out of milk, selling it for tens of millions and then appearing at tech conferences for the rest of your life is the Holy Grail.

Grail didn't invent the tests — they were first developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins and in Hong Kong, and controversial company Pathway Genomics offers a similar liquid biopsy.

An effective user acquisition strategy is the holy grail for many marketers, whether it be a mix of channels that generate a constant flow of new users at a sustainable cost or a clever tactic that gives a new product a boost in users in a short period of time.

Growing at scale is the holy grail of business leadership — and this feat alone makes Zuckerberg an easy choice for Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2016.

«The marketing manager looked at me, and he said, «Liz, this is the holy grail.

The «Marketing Holy Grail» is to turn the buyer journey into a science by sending the right message, to the right person, at the right time.

Sundance bestows status to independent films; simply by being screened at the legendary venue which recognized iconic sex, lies and videotape, American Splendor, and the like; being picked up by a movie studio is a sure path to mass audiences and used to be every filmmaker's Holy Grail.

The Holy Grail is savings equal to at least eight times your annual salary at age 67.

«Apple has sought the holy grail of tax avoidance: offshore corporations that it argues are not, for tax purposes, resident anywhere in any nation,» then - Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, who was the subcommittee chairman, said at the 2013 hearing.

As in many faiths there is a place considered the grail, a shrine that must be visited at least once in a lifetime.

In the modern age, due to books like The DaVinci Code and Holy Blood Holy Grail, it's become hip to look at Mary Magdalene as kind of a female Christ figure, even though those books don't quite articulate it that way.

At this point I hope that the Holy Grail temptation will yield to visions of the new service that secular administration and financing can bring — without losing sight of the need to have a dimension of ministry involved on the team.

The youngster had been taken on the trip, which was financed by the Grail Trust, where Robinson was a director at the time.

The image of Tupperware rarely evokes philosophy, spirituality, or ethics, much less salvation, yet Marion Montgomery addresses all of these as he explores Walker Percy's sardonic comment on the plight of the believing Christian writer, who at the end of his artistic quest is more likely to find himself at a Tupperware party than in the presence of the Holy Grail.

The quest for the grail — the chalice used at the Last Supper — was a consuming fascination in medieval culture.

For the novel's real hero, Lancelot, at his worst anyway, they are little more than a near occasion of sin: «I have been away in strange and desert places, sometimes quite alone, sometimes in a boat with nobody but God and the whistling sea,» he tells Arthur after his failure with the Grail.

Originally, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, the authors of the 1982 non-fiction book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, had accepted Plantard's farce at face value.

-- well, after several blueberry muffin disasters — some too heavy, others with no flavor at all — Flo Braker's absolutely perfect recipe has became my holy grail of blueberry muffins.

Before I realized this, in a more defeated frame of mind, I listed lasagna at # 1 of the holy grail Genius Recipes I was seeking in 2016.

Omg I am dying to have a vitamix — it's like the holy grail of blending, or at least in my geeky cooking brain it is Actually really want to use it to make soup and nut butter!

The thing is, if you aren't equipped with a convection oven at home, you're already at a disadvantage in terms of achieving the roasted vegetable Holy Grail: pieces of veg with a uniformly golden - brown, crispy exterior and just - tender interior.

The Holy Grail, I think, would be to find dress slacks for sale at a Chevron.

The Holy Grail and the hugely popular headline performances at the Wireless Festival have resulted in a higher than expected demand for Jay Z Tickets.

A lot of Arsenal fans have resigned themselves to going at least another season without winning the holy grail of the Premier League trophy.

garth crooks is even dafter than the people who just look at individual statistics and think they have found the holy grail of football punditry....

: Most people want to spend umpteen hours at their local supplement store looking for the holy grail of products.

Ever since, I have been on a part - time quest for the grail of the perfect shoe: something at once so comfortable and light and durable and magical that it would confer the speed of a Tommie Smith and the endurance of a Ron Clarke on an ordinary runner.

It left me with a question, that being should our holy grail be that we be aiming towards playing at the level of possession and passing football that Guardiola's Bayern (and Barca before) do, or do we have a team that can adapt and play differently, according to the opposition, and still be equally effective and successful?

Increasing «Dwell Time» is the Holy Grail for retail experts at the moment.

Or hate it while still dragging everyone along anyway in the hope of a hot cup of tea and that holy grail of stay - at - home - mumlife, some adult conversation that's not the ASOS delivery man.

The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.

The mail pieces appear to bear the New York State Republican Committee's nonprofit mail permit, which one consultant described to the Observer as the «holy grail» for local candidates, as it enables them to send out literature at an enormously discounted rate.

Pandemonium broke out when the taken which apparently lost control while descending the Iju Hill around the Grail Message Headquaters Iju, at the boundary between Ogun and Lagos states.

«Finding the optimal conditions to avoid interfering with immune cells working to eradicate cancer while preventing graft rejection and GVHD is the holy grail of bone marrow transplant,» says Leo Luznik, M.D., associate professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

«The holy grail, at least to me, would be to design this thing so it can recharge itself inside the body,» Mayer says.

At a NASA press conference today that also unveiled more than 500 other new candidate planets, Kepler's mission scientists announced they have finally found and confirmed what looks to be the mission's long - sought holy grail, a near - twin of Earth called Kepler 452 b.

Professor Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who led the study, said: «New strains of flu are continuously emerging, some of which are deadly, and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains of flu.»

«Weyl semimetals are kind of the Holy Grail in physics right now,» said Alan Tennant, chief scientist at ORNL's Neutron Sciences Directorate.

«Precipitation depends on ice; it's very sensitive to ice in a cloud, so figuring out what forms ice [in clouds] is sort of the holy grail of the measurements we've been trying to do, and it's a very chemically selective process,» Prather said at the ACS meeting yesterday afternoon.

In February, officials with that company told attendees at a sequencing technology meeting in Florida that they had already snagged this grail.

«The holy grail is to give people natural hearing back,» says Hinrich Staecker at the University of Kansas Medical Center, who is leading the trial.

Resolution of lithium - metal deposition could unlock the «Holy Grail» of all batteries, which is the area where these scientists are closely working on with the scientists at the Department of Energy, he said.

At the same time, the steep price of gasoline — and corn — means that next - generation ethanol can be profitable even if its price doesn't reach what Khosla Ventures» Kaul calls the «holy grail» of $ 1 a gallon.

On multiferroics and their possible application, Professor O'Brien said: «The Holy Grail in this field is the combination of both magnetic and ferroelectric elements at room temperature with a sufficient magnitude of interaction.»